John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932. He graduated from Harvard College in 1954 and spent a year in Oxford, England, at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. From 1955 to 1957 he was a member of the staff of The New Yorker . His novels have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and the William Dean Howells Medal. In 2007 he received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Updike died in January 2009.

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Chuck Palahniuk

Chuck Palahniuk’s eight previous novels are the bestselling Rant , Haunted , Lullaby , Diary , Choke —which was made into a 2008 film by director Clark Gregg, starring Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston — Survivor , Invisible Monsters , and Fight Club , which was made into a film by director David Fincher. He is also the author of the nonfiction profile of Portland, Oregon, Fugitives and Refugees , published as part of the Crown Journeys series, and the nonfiction collection Stranger Than Fiction . He lives in the Pacific Northwest.www.chuckpalahniuk.net...

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